Marketing Strategy and Business

How to successfully sell with social media by getting to know the right people and starting up a conversation that might go somewhere.

Here are 8 ways to strike up social media conversations with people you want to meet:
#1: Boil the Frog
#2: Givers Gain
#3: Make Henry Kissinger Proud
#4: Be Brave
#5: Be Positive and Pleasant
#6: Prepare for Window Shopping
#7: Let Your Personality Shine Through
#8: Take It Offline, When It’s Time

After more than twenty years in Silicon Valley, Rob Fuggetta founded Zuberance in February 2007 because he saw a major opportunity for companies to harness the power of word-of-mouth advertising and the social web to drive sales. He recently provided me with this list of the top ten ways to turn word-of-mouth advertising into sales.